Washing-machine



D.ALLEN.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 21,175. Patented Aug. 17, 1858.

UNITED STATES PATENT FETC DAVID ALLAN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. $1,175, dated August 17, 1858.

To all. whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID ALLAN, of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Washing Clothes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 is a perspective view and section, letter A being the dasher or plunger inserted in the tubs, B, B, connected with the beam C, by the pitmen D, D, and worked by the handle on brake E, supporting post- F as shown. The top of dasher or binder G is kept in the situation shown by a key or wedge, (see letter 1-1,) until the clothes are put on, or moved from the da'sher A.

When the clothes are placed on the dasher A, the top of dasher or binder G is brought down upon them and is there secured by the said key or wedge H at the point J, the

water or soap suds being about six inches below the bottom of dasher when the beam C is horizontal, and the top of dasher or binder Gr being concave, as shown in section Fig. 2. This concavity contains a large amountof air, which when submerged gives a certain percussion forcing the water through the clothes so as to immediately cleanse and purify the same-without the ordinary rubbing or grinding against the sides of the vessel or the washing boards in common use.

WVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The top of the dasher or binder G, G, constructed and operated in the manner herein set forth and when acting in connection with the plunger A.

DAVID ALLAN.

Attest:

JOHN B. EVANS, G110. R, ADAMS. 

